Theo D'haen is Emeritus Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at the universities of Leuven and Leiden. Recent publications include The Concise Routledge History of World Literature, World Literature: A Reader (with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen), American Literature: A History (with Hans Bertens), and World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics.

David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and founder of the Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature?, Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age, and Around the World in 80 Books, and he is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Literature.

Djelal Kadir is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Among his books are Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology, and Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance. He is the former Editor of World Literature Today and Founding President of the International American Studies Association.